Member of the Week

Every day, CT Nonprofits promotes the good work of its members and highlights the critical role nonprofits serve in the community. One of the many ways we do this is through our web site's Member of the Week. This week, we are proud to recognize the work of four organizations who improve the lives of parents!

March is Parenting Awareness Month. Our featured members value the role our state's parents play in the community.

Center for the Advancement of Youth, Family, and Community Services, Inc.

The Center’s mission is to promote positive youth development and to assist children in the transition through adolescence to becoming healthy adults connected to their communities. They accomplish this by creating effective school and community-based strategies in partnership with parents, teachers, counselors, and community leaders. Their work is unique in that it focuses on youth and community development through the perspective of rites of passage. The Center offers a number of stand-alone school-based strategies, including:

Rite of Passage Experience© (ROPE®)
(Grades 6-12)
Innovative After-School Strategies
An Initiation of Scholars® Strategy for grades 5-8
A college level Rite of Passage Experience© initiative designed specifically to foster bonding and commitment to college and to combating binge drinking and other health-compromising behaviors.

For more information about this organization, please visit: http://rope.org/index.asp

Centering Healthcare Institute

The mission of Centering Healthcare Institute, Inc (CHI) is to change the paradigm of health services to a group care model in order to improve the overall health outcomes of mothers, babies, new families and all individuals across the life cycle. Their goals include:

Informing health professionals, students, parents and individuals about the Centering model;
Developing and conducting workshops;
Providing consultation services;
Developing and updating educational, training, and promotional materials;
Providing site approval and certification for workshop leaders and site group leaders;
Supporting research on the Centering model; and
Assuring financial stability of the organization.

The Centering model is a unique method used at the Centering Healthcare Institute. It is a model of group healthcare, which incorporates three major components: assessment, education, and support. Group participants meet with their care provider and other group participants according to a regular schedule for a much longer period of time (usually 90-120 minutes) than a usual check-up visit. Centering promotes individual health empowerment and community-building. For more information about this organization, please visit: http://centeringhealthcare.org/index.php

Women's Mentoring Network

Women's Mentoring Network (WMN) is a career, educational and personal resource that promotes economic empowerment for low-income women. WMN offers comprehensive family focused programs, integrating work, education and family in the following areas:

Employment & Career Services
Life & Employability Skills Workshops
One-to-One Mentoring
Adult Education Scholarships
Family Literacy Services
Youth Education Services

Some examples of specific programs include one-to-one mentoring programs, children’s workshops, workshops on personal development and financial management, and the Young Teen internship project. For more information about this organization, please visit: http://wmninc.org/index.html

YWCA Greater Hartford Region

YWCA serves Greater Hartford with vital programs, including early learning and school-age childcare; emergency, transitional and permanent supportive housing; child abuse prevention; youth leadership development; racial justice awareness; and financial literacy education. Serving 2,300 people annually, they are a recognized advocate on issues related to safety for women and their families, economic empowerment, racial justice, youth development and affordable childcare.

A unique program at the YWCA is their “Stand Against Racism” event. The goal of Stand Against Racism is to bring together organizations that share their vision of eliminating racism and celebrating the richness of diversity. Every year YWCA Associations throughout the country invite organizations to participate. Any organization of any size that is located within the geographic area of a sponsoring YWCA can become a Participating Site by hosting a “Stand.” Last year’s participants included AFCAMP, Catholic Charities, Chrysalis Center, Compass Youth Collaborative, Co-Opportunity, Jewish Family Services and Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, and the State Education Resource Center; all members of CT Nonprofits! The 2011 “Stand Against Racism” will be held on Friday, April 29th. Information about this specific event can be found at: http://www.ywcahartford.org/againstracism.php . For more information about the YWCA, please visit: http://www.ywcahartford.org/index.php

Are you a member of CT Nonprofits? If so, and you'd like to be highlighted as our member of the week, please contact Melissa Harris.

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